Prevent Malicious Bots/Spiders From Accessing Your Site Using .htaccess

Last Updated on Saturday, 18 May 2013 10:44 Written by Khaleel Demeri Sunday, 19 May 2013 12:00

There are various types of bots and spiders that transverse sites for different reasons. Among them activities such as email harvesting and other malicious activity. By using a .htaccess file, you can block the majority of well know malicious bots.

Bad bots typically ignore the wishes of your robots.txt file, so you’ll want to ban them using means such as .htaccess. The trick is to identify a bad bot. Below is a useful code block you can insert into .htaccess file for blocking a lot of the known bad bots and site rippers currently out there.

URL Redirection Without Changing the Address in the Address Bar

Last Updated on Wednesday, 15 May 2013 01:48 Written by Khaleel Demeri Friday, 17 May 2013 12:00

Sometimes we want to redirect to a specific URL but keep the same address without any changes. As an example, we may need to redirect www.domain.com to www.domain.com/subdirectory . To do this you simply need to:

1) Create html file on your current directory (www.domain.com root directory) and set it as the website default page.

2) Place the following html code in it:

Enable PHP 5.3 for Your Website on Windows Based Hosting

Last Updated on Saturday, 11 May 2013 06:14 Written by Khaleel Demeri Tuesday, 14 May 2013 12:00

Enabling PHP 5.3 for your website in a windows based hosting is very simple! You can enable PHP 5.3 for your website by adding the following to your web.config file between <system.webServer> tags.

Configure PHP Variables Using PHP Variables Manager

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:24 Written by Khaleel Demeri Saturday, 4 May 2013 12:00

The PHP Variables Manager plugin is available for cPanel users under the 1H Software section in cPanel. It allows cPanel users to easily configure different PHP variables per folder through a single interface without the need to manually modify their own php.ini files – convenient and time saving.

Change PHP Version Using the PHP Version Manager

Last Updated on Saturday, 27 April 2013 09:23 Written by Khaleel Demeri Thursday, 2 May 2013 12:00

The PHP version change plugin is available for cPanel users under the 1H Software section in cPanel. It allows you to easily choose between 6 different PHP versions. Through the plugin interface you can set a different PHP version not only per a separate hosting account, but also within each directory or sub-directory of that hosting account with just a single click.